Mr. Speaker, I think this is much ado about nothing. I refer to page 371 of Marleau and Montpetit which states:
In 1968, the Standing Orders were amended to allow a Minister, or his or her Parliamentary Secretary, to table any report or paper so long as it dealt with a matter within the administrative competence of the government.
Notice the word “allow”. It continues:
Since 1982, the government has also been required to table a comprehensive response to a committee report--
and so on, and makes references to other such documents. Clearly what we are talking about here is--